Blog: Homelessness Ends Here

03/05/2010 The Week in Tweets - February 27 thru March 5 Publisher: Funders Together Author: Funders Together

A summary of tweets from the Funders Together twitter feed. Follow us at @FundersTogether for real-time updates!

03/03/2010 Transforming Public Housing into Supportive Communities Publisher: Corporation for Supportive Housing Author: Richard Cho

A new report entitled, "Inclusive Public Housing: Services for the Hard to House," released last week by the Urban Institute presents fascinating new findings regarding the service needs and vulnerability of families living in public housing. The report find that families living in distressed public housing fall within three categories of need: younger “striving” families who require just basic assistance to achieve self-sufficiency; “aging and distressed” families who have multiple physical and medical challenges; and families who are “high-risk,” with complex health and social challenges and who, without adequate supports, will become tomorrow’s “aging and distressed” families.

03/03/2010 Ohio Interagency Council Adopts PSH Policy Framework Framework is a positive step toward meeting the needs of the state homeless population Publisher: Technical Assistance Collaborative Author: Technical Assistance Collaborative

Recently, the Ohio Interagency Council on Homeless and Affordable Housing adopted a new State of Ohio Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Policy Framework intended to create 6,000 new units of PSH for the most vulnerable households with serious and long term disabilities. “By adopting this groundbreaking comprehensive approach to permanent supportive housing – which focuses on preventing and ending chronic homelessness as well as reducing Ohio’s use of expensive and unnecessary institutions – the State of Ohio has become a national leader in PSH policy” said Ann O’Hara, Associate Director of the Technical Assistance Collaborative in Boston, who helped to draft the policy framework.

02/26/2010 The Week in Tweets - February 20 thru February 26 Publisher: Funders Together Author: Funders Together

A summary of tweets from the Funders Together twitter feed. Follow us at @FundersTogether for real-time updates!

02/19/2010 The Week in Tweets - February 13 thru February 19 Publisher: Funders Together Author: Funders Together

A summary of tweets from the Funders Together twitter feed. Follow us at @FundersTogether for real-time updates!

02/17/2010 Ending Homelessness Among Veterans The VA Steps Up to the Plate Publisher: Corporation for Supportive Housing Author: Kelly Kent

"Homelessness among veterans will be ended in five years." This is a bold statement, especially when you consider that an estimated 131,000 veterans remain homeless today with new veterans becoming homeless at unprecedented rates after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The good news: the federal government has increased public investments in the one programmatic solution capable of ending veteran homelessness in five years: Permanent Supportive Housing.

 

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